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, India, and the Cape, coloured and mounted; Nash's Mansions of England in the Olden Time; Gruner's Specimens of Ornamental Art; Musee Royal (picked proofs before the letters); Richardson's Studies from Old English Mansions; and a great number of Books of Prints by eminent Artists will be sold in this Sale. Catalogues (1s. each, returnable to Purchasers) will be forwarded to gentlemen sending their Address. * * * * * This Evening, at 6. First Class English Engravings.--By SOUTHGATE & BARRETT, at their Rooms, 22. Fleet Street, THIS EVENING, Dec. 15, and following Evenings, at 6, CHOICE ENGRAVINGS, including all the best Productions of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A.; comprising the Stag at Bay (both large and small), the Cover Hack, the Drive, Three Sporting Dogs, Return from the Warren, the Mothers, complete Sets of his Etchings, and others; Turner's Dover and Hastings; Ansdell's Just Caught; the Halt, and the Combat; Webster's Rubber; Etty's Judgment of Paris; Harvey's Bowlers, and First Reading of the Bible in Old St. Paul's; Murillo's Holy Family; the Rainbow, by Constable; Mated and Checkmated, the Duet, and other graceful Compositions by Frank Stone; Going With and against the Stream, after Jenkins; and numerous others. All in the finest possible states. * * * * * {609} PRIVATELY PRINTED BOOKS, SOLD BY JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36. SOHO SQUARE, LONDON. * * * * * These Works are printed in quarto, uniform with the Club-Books, and the series is now completed. Their value chiefly consists in the rarity and curiosity of the pieces selected, the notes being very few in number. The impression of each work is most strictly limited. * * * * * I. MORTE ARTHURE: The Alliterative Romance of the Death of King Arthur; now first printed, from a Manuscript in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral. Seventy-five Copies printed. 5l. *** A very curious Romance, full of allusions interesting to the Antiquary and Philologist. It contains nearly eight thousand lines. II. THE CASTLE OF LOVE: A Poem, by ROBERT GROSTESTE, Bishop of Lincoln; now first printed from inedited MSS. of the Fourteenth Century. One Hundred Copies printed. 15s. *** This is a religious poetical Romance, unknown to Warton. Its poetical merits are beyond its age. III. CONTRIBUTIONS TO EAR
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